Attack in Germany: man killed three people and injured four others | In Würzburg

At least three people died and five others were injured after a man attacked them with a knife in the center of the town of Würzburgo, in the state of Bavaria (south of the country).

Security forces have reported that a suspect has been arrested and there is no indication that there is a second assailant. “There is no danger to the population,” police from the Lower Franconia region said on their Twitter account.

The suspect is a 24-year-old Somali who lived in Wuerzburg. The alleged perpetrator was arrested after being hit by a police bullet, but they made it clear that his life is not in danger.

In addition, they clarified that he had only been in psychiatric treatment for a few days and had committed several crimes in the past, none indicating an Islamist motivation, police said.

According to initial reports, the man attacked passers-by near Barbarossa Square in the center of the Bavarian city, after which the police received an emergency call at 5:00 p.m.

After reporting the incident, parts of the city center were cordoned off in the afternoon and large numbers of troops were deployed.

Faced with the Internet publications of certain Internet users in which a group of passers-by appeared trying to surround a man armed with a knife before the arrival of the Police, the institution asked citizens to stop publishing images and pictures. videos.

At the moment, the motivation for the attack is unknown., while the Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann, travels to Würzburg to assess the situation.

Wuerzburg is a city in the region of Bavaria, southern Germany, with 127,000 inhabitants, about 100 kilometers north-east of Nuremberg.